@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-01-14 19:51:04
On The Green Light Signal and Beyond (2021) - Learn how I am trying a smart lighting nudge @home to use 'leccy at grid-friendly times. #IoT #CO2Intensity -
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@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2025-11-10 03:23:04
On IoT Communications Backhaul (2015) - How small Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices should talk to one another. #IoT #comms - https://www.
@unixorn@hachyderm.io2025-11-08 15:20:13
Paraphrase of my #IOT hardware rant on slack (unsurprising, since I maintain https://github.com/unixorn/internet-of-trash/)
In a perfect world IOT hardware companies should:
- Have to escrow the firmware. And escrow the source code, not just the binary blob
- The firmware isn't allowed to use binary blobs as device drivers. Chip manufacturers will have to suck it up and document their chips or hardware companies won't be able to use them
- Have to escrow any keys required to update the firmware
- To be sold, have to have a local API, with at a minimum, functionality to update the firmware once the hardware company stops support. No "You have to use our crapware that only works on a phone/computer OS two major versions old, and it has to download firmware from our servers that got turned off when we went out of business / dropped the product's support
- Eighteen months with no updates causes release of the escrowed firmware and update keys. There are bound to be at least some security updates required in that time
- Have to have clearly labeled pads on the board for updating firmware and running diagnostics.
- Not be allowed to lock consumers out of reflashing the firmware. If someone flashes custom firmware before the escrowed firmware is released, and the custom firmware bricks the device, that's on the person who reflashed it, not the company.
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@pdmckone@mstdn.ca2026-01-02 13:42:01
[Driving down the street in the IoT-detector van]
Tech Trainee: [Viewing a screen showing dozens of blue triangles] Wow, look at all the Bluetooth stubs.
Service Tech: Yep, all those appliances that no one has hooked into the internet yet.
Trainee: So we're going to use the factory presets to hook them up for their owners?
Service: God, no. We check to see if they're out of warranty and brick 'em.
Trainee: That's awful.
Service: Yeah, it is. If they had hooked them into the WiFi like we told them, we wouldn't have to drive around to do this.
Trainee: We're punishing them for not connecting their appliances?
Service: No, I mean we could brick them remotely.
#ShortFiction #IoT #Brick
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2025-11-28 09:51:03
On IoT Communications Backhaul (2015) - How small Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices should talk to one another. #IoT #comms - https://www.
@bobmueller@mastodon.world2025-12-05 23:00:01
You're going to want to sit down for this.
Or maybe not.
Kohler has started selling a smart camera. For your toilet. Yep, a camera.
And in typical #IOT fashion, lo and behold, it's not secure.
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2025-11-22 09:51:02
On IoT Communications Backhaul (2015) - How small Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices should talk to one another. #IoT #comms - https://www.
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2025-11-21 19:51:03
@unixorn@hachyderm.io2025-11-11 14:18:00
If you have a #Nest 1 or Nest 2 that were bricked, #iot #homeassistant #homeautomation
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2026-01-03 09:51:03
On The Green Light Signal and Beyond (2021) - Learn how I am trying a smart lighting nudge @home to use 'leccy at grid-friendly times. #IoT #CO2Intensity -
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2025-12-26 19:51:03
On The Green Light Signal and Beyond (2021) - Learn how I am trying a smart lighting nudge @home to use 'leccy at grid-friendly times. #IoT #CO2Intensity -
@unixorn@hachyderm.io2025-11-21 16:09:16
FYI for those of you interested in #iot - there is now an IOT tagpush bot in addition to @…
Tagpush bots are less hassle than the old @a.gup.pe bots because instead of having to mention the bot to get your post boosted, all you have to do is follow the bot and any messages you post with its tag will be boosted. You'll see what the bot boosts and not have to do anything special to have it boost other than add the hashtags you'd be adding anyway.
The @… bot boosts anything its followers post with #iot or #InternetOfThings
The @… bot does the same thing for the #homeassistant tag.
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@luana@wetdry.world2025-12-26 18:12:12
Ohhh, there’s this which is cool: #SmartHome #Zigbee #HomeAssistant #IoT #HomeKit